No-First-Use

No-First-Use
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2020-11-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000199266

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The debate on no-first-use of nuclear weapons has been conducted on a number of fronts. First use of nuclear weapons has come under challenge from many different directions: from church synods, from international lawyers, in debates at the United Nations, and from strategic thinkers. Originally published in 1984, this book takes stock for and against no-first-use and examines the political, military and arms control implications of such a commitment.

The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons

The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
Author: T.V. Paul
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2009-01-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0804771006

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Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view that use would have a catastrophic impact on humankind, the environment, and the reputation of the user. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the nuclear policies of the U.S., Russia, China, the UK, France, India, Israel, and Pakistan and assesses the contributions of these states to the rise and persistence of the tradition of nuclear non-use. It examines the influence of the tradition on the behavior of nuclear and non-nuclear states in crises and wars, and explores the tradition's implications for nuclear non-proliferation regimes, deterrence theory, and policy. And it concludes by discussing the future of the tradition in the current global security environment.

Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons
Author: World Peace Council. Information Centre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1982
Genre: Disarmament
ISBN:

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Nuclear Weapons under International Law

Nuclear Weapons under International Law
Author: Gro Nystuen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139992740

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Nuclear Weapons under International Law is a comprehensive treatment of nuclear weapons under key international law regimes. It critically reviews international law governing nuclear weapons with regard to the inter-state use of force, international humanitarian law, human rights law, disarmament law, and environmental law, and discusses where relevant the International Court of Justice's 1996 Advisory Opinion. Unique in its approach, it draws upon contributions from expert legal scholars and international law practitioners who have worked with conventional and non-conventional arms control and disarmament issues. As a result, this book embraces academic consideration of legal questions within the context of broader political debates about the status of nuclear weapons under international law.

Policies for Common Security

Policies for Common Security
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-07-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000023982

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The basic idea of common security is not complex. It is that no country can obtain security, in the long run, simply by taking unilateral decisions about its own military forces. This is because security depends also on the actions and reactions of potential adversaries. Security has to be found in common with those adversaries. These ideas were considered in a SIPRI conference held in 1983. The conference had two main objectives. The first was to undertake a critical examination of the concept. The second was to consider the implications of the idea for policy in general, and for disarmament and arms control policy in particular. Originally published in 1985, this book contains revised versions of some of the papers presented at the conference.

Make No First Use of Nuclear Weapons

Make No First Use of Nuclear Weapons
Author: P. M. Kamath
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

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This paper discusses making No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons enshrined in the Indian Nuclear Doctrine as a first step towards nuclear disarmament. The proposal derives its credence from the efforts of the US President Barrack Obama to place nuclear disarmament as an important policy of his administration. Incidentally, the concept of NFU originated in the US, but it is China that put it into practice first, in October 1964 after its first nuclear test. Of the many advantages of the policy of NFU, it is more democratic in contrast to the First Use (FU) policy practiced by the US. Under the policy of FU, per force, nuclear weapons have to be placed with the armed forces for instant use. But in NFU, since nuclear weapons are used only for a second strike, the weapons could be held by a different agency other than the armed forces. India is the only country that has made, “Global, verifiable and nondiscriminatory nuclear disarmament” as a national security objective by including it in the nuclear doctrine. Hence, the step has to be taken for an international treaty amongst the known nuclear powers and threshold states on NFU of nuclear weapons. Noble Peace Laureate, Sir Joseph Rotblat had called for a treaty among Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) that commits them never to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Rotblat rightly thought NFU “would open the way to the gradual, mutual reductions of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.” If each NWS commits not to use nuclear weapon as a weapon of first strike, there shall be no occasion to use them at all. India had introduced such a proposal for consideration in the UN Conference on Disarmament in February 2008. A multilateral agreement under UN should bind the nations to a greater extent to follow the spirit of the treaty.